Word: torchlighters
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...cliche was neither surprising nor--for an American audience--persuasive, except for mass and length. The demonstration that the commonplace and the so-called "good German" characteristics played their part was more terrifying. Granted they did not appear in the stadium scenes, nor in the torchlight undertakings, whose purpose was to make the individual forget himself and his responsibilities in the Movement. But the act in the city itself played up the connection between the Party and German culture. Hitler was shown accepting flowers from children (blond almost without exception), shaking hands and talking with idolizing women in peasant costume...
Fifteen hundred people, four horses and one pigeon turned out in the center of Havana, Ill. (pop. 5,000) one night last week for a torchlight parade. On North Plum Street the pigeon left the parade and soared in an easterly direction to carry the tidings to Harry Truman in Washington. The message, which the Pres ident had already gotten from sources faster than a carrier pigeon,* was that Scott Lucas, majority leader of the U.S. Senate, had officially decided to seek reelection...
...Torchlight & Pickpockets. Baedeker's supreme duty was to take the tourist by the hand and lead him gently through the pitfalls of foreign lands. Thieves of all kinds were among Baedeker arch foes; speaking of Lourdes shrine, Baedeker says: "The torchlight procession presents a fairylike scene (Beware of pickpockets...
...tabloid view of a power-mad politician who has set his heart on bossing the world. The best of recent Hollywood attempts to fuse studio and documentary styles, this slam-bang indictment of grass-roots demagoguery is full of punch and color: melodramatic shots of campaign barbecues, torchlight parades, legislative brawling and backroom political deals...
...parade will have band music but no torchlight, since the cheerleading squad's torches have all disappeared during previous rallies. The squad plans instead to have a jalopy motorcade in front of the parade as an escort...